Author Archives: sean pond

Against Marvin

What world have they made?

People raise their children is many different traditions. One tradition is the tradition of Adventure or the Unique Life. This tradition has not been investigated fully until now. I will analyse the being of the Unique and their effects on our world including the world they make for their children.

Petition to change the names of Canada’s political parties

I am going to put together a list

I think ABC CBA BCA etc should work

North American political parties should not have names that confuse and obscure the complex nature of parties and concepts such as conservatism, liberalism, democracy. Liberalism is not an economic theory but a theory of liberty. You can be a liberal but not a progressive as people on the left would let you know.

Earl of Shaftesbury as a model for the bored young men of our time

When I finish the Characteristics I’ll be able to talk more about it. I really love the positive Enlightenment ideals.

Maybe we could do a Joe Rogan tie in with muffin media on the subject.

From Herder This too a Philosophy

“Behold the whole universe from heaven to earth – what is means?, what is purpose? Is not everything means for millions of purposes? Is not everything the purpose of millions of means?

Isaiah Berlin: It is the sense of the general texture of experience- the most rudimentary awareness of such patterns-that constitutes the foundation of knowledge, that is itself not open to inductive or deductive reasoning: for both these methods rest upon it.

Alasdair Macintyre:

Those who respond to periods of rapid and disruptive change by appealing for a retention of or a return to the ways of the past, to the customary, to the traditional, always have to reckon with the fact that in an established customary social order those who follow its ways do not have and do not need good reasons for so doing.

The question of what constitutes a good reason for action is thrust upon them only when they are already confronted by alternatives, and characteristically the first uses of practical reasoning will be to justify the pursuit of some good not to be achieved by following the customary routines of the normal day, month, and year. It is only later when these routines have more largely and more radically been disrupted that the question of whether it was not in fact better to follow the older ways unreflectively can be raised, and when the conservative offers his contemporaries good reasons for returning to an earlier relatively unreflective mode of social life, his very modes of advocacy provide evidence that what he recommends is no longer possible- Whose Justice? which rationality?

World political, religious and business leaders ramp up beatings to improve productivity, morale and encourage creation of new human economic resources (children)

This image was sustainably created by AI using under three pounds of plutonium, 12,000 gallons of village well water and the labor of thousands of of unpaid volunteers

It’s back to the drawing board after an unsuccessful worldwide campaign that asked prospective parents to imagine their child’s rewarding future as a hero of the coming apocalypse.

Results seem mixed despite including spiritual, psychological and emotional terror. Leaders are baffled at the lack of success in this well intentioned attempt to cheer everyone up!

”We are looking for input from the people on solving our collective problems namely how many sticks to use and how large can we make them given we need to save the carrots for current carrot owners (as well as lucrative carrot speculation markets)) “

Review:

The Theory of Communicative Action Vol I & II

J Habermas

Filler for when I get around to all these reviews! Definitely the right stuff to read at this point in history. Might hit thr new version of Webers economy and society next as its a big part of this last one’s life world.

Both are in glorious Hot Dog Cart colors from 1981!